Storing and dispensing surgical adhesive plaster



Feb. 14, 1933. H. R. GRAHAM STORING AND DISPENSING SURGICAL ADHESIVE PLASTER Filed Jan. 16, 1932 We 7 m 3 dilemma/ Patented Feb. 14, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFF-ICE HERBERT R. GRAHAM, OF MILLER, SOUTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNOR TO JOHNSON & JOHNSON, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY STORING AN D DISPENSING SURGICAL ADHESIVE PLASTER Application filed January 16, 1932. Serial No. 587,110.

The invention relates to accessories for hospitals, first-aid stations, and the like, and more particularly to racks or reels for surgical a iesive plaster or tape, and in pursuance of its ob ects provides a novel and useful construction whereby dispensing reels orv plication and removal of factory wound.

cores or reels of surgical adhesive plaster and the like, the gate being swingingly mounted so that in one position it exposes the plaster for easy dispensing purposes, and in the other position it serves completely to seal the same within the cabinet, it being a further feature of the gate that, due to its overbalanced relation, it isheld by gravity in either the open or closed position irrespective of whether the cabinet be suspended or supported on a table.

The invention is illustrated in the accompany'ing drawing wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved means for storing'and dispensing adhesive-plaster, the gate being shown in open position.

Fig. 2 is a similar view with the gate in closed position.

Fig. 3 is a detail of one of the mandrel supports showin the radial slot and pivotal latch for closing the same.

Referring to the drawing, 5 represents an elongated sheet metal casing having, preferably, two substantially fiat faces, forming, respectively, a back wall 6 and a bottom 7 whereby it may be supported either against a wall or on a table. To the former end back wall 6 is equipped with pivotal hangers 8 having keyhole slots 9 to engage nails or other fastenings, two of the hangers being disposed near the upper margin and another eing disposed intermediate of them and near the lower margin. The arcuate frontwise ranging heads 10 and a relatively narrow top wall 11 complete the receptacle part of the casing and leave a considerable gap or frontal opening 12, which is closed or ported at will by areceptacle like cover-or swing gate 13. The latter embodies circular heads 1 1 joined by concave-convex wall 15 so that the gate is, in effect, a half cylinder. The heads 14 are rotatively mounted in the heads 10 of the casing, as at 16, and by reason of the overbalanced character of the gate, gravity operates to hold it in open or closed position regardless of whether the casing is disposed on a table .orpe'ndent from a wall.

The main part .15 of. the gate has a marginal ofi'set portion .or' lip 17 which may be availed of as an operating member and W ich in the open or closed position of the gate abuts against one or the other wall 11 and 7, respectively.

The'gate heads 14 are each provided with boxes 18 to accommodate the stepped ends 19 of a shaft or mandrel 20, one of said boxes having'a radial slot or passway 21 to facilitate the application and removal of the mandrel, a pivotal-dog or latch 22 cooperating with the same to retain the mandrel in its bearings. The mandrel is adapted for the reception of the conventional factory wound core or reel of surgical adhesive plaster 23 in one or more units as may be'desired.

What is claimed as new is Means for storing and dispensing surgical adhesive plaster comprisin the combination of a receptacle casing for a ternative flatwise support on a wall or on a table and having a receiving and dispensing opening, a con- HERBERT R. GRAHAM. 

